'Very good news' for Jack Smith as Arizona indictment puts 'pressure' on Trump allies
by Raw Story
Raw Story— The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday.The newly dropped indictment names a number of Republican officials and Trump strategists in an alleged criminal scheme to stop the electoral count in Arizona, including...
BBC News—Arizona indicts Trump allies over 2020 fake elector scheme. Former Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those charged, court documents show.
Los Angeles Times—Granderson: Arizona's indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history. I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city is also the state that did not want a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the cultural pendulum swings so drastically because the population shifts depending on the time of year — shoutout to you snowbirds. Whatever the season, though, Arizona is not a liberal epicenter like New York. To get...
POLITICO—Jack Smith’s odds of putting Trump on trial this year are sinking. The Supreme Court foreshadowed a long slog for Trump’s D.C. case, while his Florida charges have similarly stalled.